A medium-size moth (3.9-4.0 cm wingspan) with ash-grey forewings and yellow-brown hindwings. Forewings are smooth, ash-grey except for the posterior half between the antemedian and postmedian lines, which is dark red-brown below the stigma, shading to dark slate grey. The stigma is a thin silver line, swelling slightly at the outer end and with the inner end joining the antemedian line. Hindwings are dark yellow-brown shading darker toward the margin. The antennae are simple and both the sexes alike. Very similar to Autographa ampla, but in ampla, the patch below the stigma is larger and darker, and there is a small dark patch near the forewing apex, as well as the structural differences that sepatrate the two genera.